PEPFAR's annual planning process is done either at the country (COP) or regional level (ROP).
PEPFAR's programs are implemented through implementing partners who apply for funding based on PEPFAR's published Requests for Applications.
Since 2010, PEPFAR COPs have grouped implementing partners according to an organizational type. We have retroactively applied these classifications to earlier years in the database as well.
Also called "Strategic Areas", these are general areas of HIV programming. Each program area has several corresponding budget codes.
Specific areas of HIV programming. Budget Codes are the lowest level of spending data available.
Expenditure Program Areas track general areas of PEPFAR expenditure.
Expenditure Sub-Program Areas track more specific PEPFAR expenditures.
Object classes provide highly specific ways that implementing partners are spending PEPFAR funds on programming.
Cross-cutting attributions are areas of PEPFAR programming that contribute across several program areas. They contain limited indicative information related to aspects such as human resources, health infrastructure, or key populations programming. However, they represent only a small proportion of the total funds that PEPFAR allocates through the COP process. Additionally, they have changed significantly over the years. As such, analysis and interpretation of these data should be approached carefully. Learn more
Beneficiary Expenditure data identify how PEPFAR programming is targeted at reaching different populations.
Sub-Beneficiary Expenditure data highlight more specific populations targeted for HIV prevention and treatment interventions.
PEPFAR sets targets using the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) System - documentation for which can be found on PEPFAR's website at https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. As with most data on this website, the targets here have been extracted from the COP documents. Targets are for the fiscal year following each COP year, such that selecting 2016 will access targets for FY2017. This feature is currently experimental and should be used for exploratory purposes only at present.
Years of mechanism: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
The goal of this project is to strengthen the capacity of URT to collect and use mortality surveillance data to assist in the management of the national HIV/AIDS programs by expanding community based identification and reporting of AIDS deaths. This will be achieved through Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy (SAVVY).
The objectives of this project is to conduct formative investigations and activities to determine structures needed to produce reliable estimates at national and sub-national level; to develop a national infrastructure to coordinate, monitor, and report on SAVVY results; to provide logistical and technical support at district level to ensure data collection at this level is adequately supervised; to work with stakeholders in districts and with implementing partners to ensure that reports generated address their information needs; and to maximize the use of secondary data generated address issues of sustainability and further roll-out.
The geographic coverage of SAVVY is 23 districts of mainland Tanzania sampled to produce national level estimates, disaggregated by place of residence (i.e rural,urban), sex, and age. The target population is adults 18-59 years of age. For COP 12, ten new districts will be added to the four now implementing SAVVY.
Some of the strategies which are cost efficient over time is to use electronic data collection to cut down the cost of paper and data entry, use mobile phones installed with a custom application to facilitate reporting and uploading of vital events directly to a central server, and to have periodic censuses to establish denominators. M&E activities have been incorporated into the four SAVVY pilot disticts and will be included in the new districts.
Subsequent to ethical approvals from CDC and NIMR, sample vital registration with verbal autopsy (SAVVY) field activities began in Tanzania in four districts of Dar es Salaam (Kahama, Geita, Bagamoyo, and Kinondoni).
Plans to expand SAVVY activities to an additional 10 districts has already begun and will continue into COP 2012. The recruitment of district SAVVY coordinators for each of the 10 districts has started, as well as training on SAVVY methodology and data collection. Additional activities for COP 2012 activities include:
- sensitization of CHMTs and community leaders on SAVVY, including the roles and responsibilities, and support needed from the districts
- identification and training of key informants to report vital events to district SAVVY coordinators
- data analysis, which will be mainly be performed by Ifakara Health Institute HQ with inputs from the district coordinators compiling regular reports to feed into HQ reports
- report writing
- dissemination of data to appropriate fora and use.
Data on deaths in Year One of the project from the four pilot districts was collected during the baseline census. Data collection of deaths is done through key informants, after which communication is sent to the district SAVVY coordinator using mobile phone technology. The coordinator, in turn, visits households where death has happened, to conduct the verbal autopsy. Coding for the deaths then takes place. Data entry, data analysis, and report writing on baseline data will be finalized in the first quarter of 2012. This activity will involve M&E officers from MOHSW, statisticians from the NBS, a demographer from NIMR, and epidemiologists from Ifakara Health Institute.
